Haeretici 7o74 (aka Ovro & myself) will play a few gigs in near future. Friday 21st October in Helsinki, Saturday 22nd in Turku, and Sunday 23rd back in Helsinki.
Check out the details here

All these live sets will be more or less different from each other so I’m sure there’s enough variation for the odd members of the audience who might turn up on all three events!
As much as I dislike the idea of “touring” I admit to having the temptation to call this a Southern Finland mini-tour…

The Turku gig will be arranged by ourselves in our current headquarters that bears the mysterious name Ostium. Other artists for the night will be Kouhei Matsunaga from Japan and Lost Weight from Helsinki.

Oh, there’s a new little website for Haeretici 7o74 too.
And speaking of websites also Reptiljan has a new, more (or less) decent one, here.

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October 2nd, we enter the phase of that which is to come. The new look for the website will represent and reflect it.
From a postcard I had mailed to myself:

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Recent times have been incredibly inspiring and illuminating. The Beast and the Rider have a mutual goal, a definite, defined direction. Several things are unfolding and falling into place, starting to form the picture I had scetched in my mind, and it’s more precise than I had imagined. I suddenly see connections, a web of threads, between normally arbitrary things. Third eye opens. Meaningless bits become important. Everything appears to relate to the opus I’m working on. A book I read suddenly reveals a new angle in the lyrics or themes of the work. Songs that were without titles (something exceptional as I usually come up with a title long before a song is finished) find names that they were made for from the beginning. Forwards, backwards, ten or more years. Old, forgotten fragments surface from a pile of debris and find themselves more relevant in the current context than they were ever before. It’s starting to feel like I’ve been working on this album since 1993 or so. Everything seems so clear now, yet I suspect it to be illusion… as the closer you get, the harder it is to see the big picture. Must ask for comments and opinions from the few trusted ones.

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